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Posts from March 2008

Crap I love: the Selle SMP Strike saddle

I’ve spent the last four years riding a handful of different bikes a few thousand miles total and in that time I’ve learned a lot about how my body works, what kind of bike feels most comfortable, and areas where comfort can be improved.
It took quite a bit of trial and error to find […]


Globalization is freaking awesome

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Chinese Hammer fucking rules, originally uploaded by mathowie.

I stumbled across Chinese Hammer tonight and fell in love with it for a thousand reasons. Just the thought of someone halfway around the world mimicking a video […]


More fun than a pile of powdered sugar

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Do I Look Cool Like They Do in the Movies?
originally uploaded by Max Sparber.

You might have seen a hilarious / bizarre / historical set of found photos someone picked up at a swap meet […]


Testing upgrade

Just testing out to see what broke in moving to WP 2.5…
update: amazingly enough, nothing broke, even a bunch of old plugins I still use.


ReCAPTCHA’s quality is going down?

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ReCAPTCHA’s quality is going down, originally uploaded by mathowie.

Several months ago, we implemented ReCAPTCHA on MetaFilter contact forms, to thwart spammers. It’s a good cause and a great idea: the nonsensical text you decode ends […]


Egg McMuffin inventor dies at 89

Oh shit: Egg McMuffin inventor dies at 89. Anyone that knows me knows that I’m the biggest fan of this man’s invention.
I can’t think of a more fitting tribute than imagining Father Guido Sarducci/Lazlo Toth is spreading jam on a McMuffin, just for you, inventor guy.


Podcasts are officially better than radio, thanks to user experience

The other day I realized that although I was skeptical of podcasting going all the way back to 2004, I have to admit that now in 2008, I vastly prefer the experience of listening to a podcast, when compared to listening to the radio (say, NPR as I am comparing voice podcasts vs. talk radio).
In […]


Does a $5,000 bike improve an amateur cyclist’s performance?

If you’ve ever spent much time around cyclists, you’ve certainly noticed they love to talk gear and if you’ve ever picked up a bike magazine, you’ve been inundated with ads extolling the virtues of bike performance. It’s nearly impossible to separate the marketing fluff from facts whenever doing research on a new bike purchase, […]


Posted
11 March 2008 @ 9am

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Will MobileScrobbler work in the new iPhone SDK?

Here’s something I’ve been wondering about. Ever since Apple released the roadmap of iPhone development and the SDK details, they mentioned that third-party apps can’t run in the background. After avoiding it for months, I finally did the jailbreak on my iPhone last month because I realized I listened to music/podcasts constantly on the […]


WWNPHD

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WWNPHD, originally uploaded by the sweetchuck.

I’m sorry, but that’s the greatest movie poster of all time


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